An awesome young lady who loves to clean and has experience with elderly dementia patients. She is going to be in our home 4 days a week - 3 hours a day. Long enough to do laundry, mop the floors, make beds, make sure Pops has lunch and his needs are meet. We have even discussed her starting a few crockpot meals for us....
Yes, I am delegating items to someone else.
This awesome young lady can clean better than I can, has more time than I do, and actually has better housekeeping skills than I will ever have.
Many of us know and often say the Serenity Prayer:
Lord, great me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
Courage to change the things I can,
And the wisdom to know the difference
This is me - I cannot change some things in my life, things like having an 87 year-old father with dementia who needs to be with us or having a son who has become disabled and needs financial help, opening a boarding kennel before I knew I would be caring for my dad, or imagining my family practice taking off packed with patients.
Do I know the difference - yes, I can change how I spend my time and what I allow myself to feel guilty about.
Do I feel guilty - NO! I am taming the tiger of time, "my time". Having someone to help in our home, will lessen my guilt over a dirty house, unmade beds, and laundry. Hiring someone is going to allow me to have time to pursue a few pleasures that I need - yes need to pursue pleasure to be healthy.
Planning on running at 5 AM, followed by kennel duty - so that I can be in the clinic by 8:30. Yes my Awesome House Helper will be her by 8:30 so, I know the breakfast dishes will be washed, the laundry folded and put away, the beds will be made and Pops will have lunch.
Tomorrow is a long day - planning on ending the day with a grandson's baseball game at 8 PM tomorrow night...but I am not stressing, instead I am taming tiger time, with an Awesome House Helper.
How do you tame the tiger of time?
~ Connie ~
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